Tice is Right – But Here’s What He Missed

Richard Tice’s recent column in the Daily Mail nailed the growing public rage at Ed Miliband’s “Net Stupid Zero” agenda. He’s absolutely right: Labour’s renewable obsession is fuelling inflation, crippling our grid, and plunging Britain into energy poverty.

But here’s the part Westminster still isn’t ready to hear: it’s not just bad policy — it’s a system of ideological capture, legal traps, and financial exploitation. And unless we confront the machinery behind it, bills will keep rising, blackouts will come, and Britain will lose the power to govern itself.

✅ Yes, Expensive Energy Is Killing Britain

Tice is right: high energy prices aren’t just about lighting homes — they affect every supermarket shelf, every factory job, every pound of inflation. And no, it’s not Putin’s fault. UK energy prices were already among the highest in the developed world before Ukraine.

But the real culprit isn’t just Miliband. It’s a 17-year experiment gone wrong, rooted in the 2008 Climate Change Act and its carbon budget straitjacket, enforced by an unelected quango: the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

💸 What He Missed: The Hidden Cost Machine

Tice exposed the AR7 subsidy auction. But behind that is a whole subsidy state, driven by:

Green levies hidden in your bills

Constraint payments to wind farms paid not to generate

Network charges from connecting renewables in remote areas

Balancing costs from intermittent supply needing backup

Standing charges that have risen 500% in a decade


And who benefits? A closed circle of foreign developers, hedge funds, consultants, and NGOs who feed off subsidies, not supply. This is no longer

🧠 What He Missed: The Legal Trap

Miliband’s plan isn’t just ideological — it’s legally binding. Carbon budgets are now law. That means every department, every regulator, even the Bank of England, must act in line with Net Zero — no matter the cost, the grid limits, or the democratic will.

Even if a future Reform UK government wanted to change direction, we’d be dragged into court by activist lawyers citing the CCC’s carbon targets. This is climate lawfare — and no one voted for it.

🔌 What He Missed: The Grid Is Being Dismantled

Tice touched on blackouts and transformer fires. But here’s the real crisis: the UK is ripping up its stable, synchronous AC grid and replacing it with a chaotic, DC-dominated web of wind, solar, and batteries.

The result?

National Grid can’t balance the system in real time

Battery storage only lasts 2–4 hours

Super Grid Transformers (SGTs) needed to connect renewables are delayed until 2032 or later

We’re still importing Chinese inverters and solar panels, while British-made SMRs sit undeployed


The system isn’t just at risk — it’s already broken. And the bills are soaring because renewables can’t stand alone without massive infrastructure costs.

🇬🇧 What He Missed: The Sovereignty Factor

This isn’t just about money. It’s about power — in every sense of the word.

Britain gave up coal. It crippled nuclear. It banned fracking. It blocked gas. And now it’s importing power from Europe, turbines from Denmark, batteries from China, and policies from the UN.

If we don’t reverse this, Britain won’t just be poor. It will be powerless.

🛠 What We Must Do Next

Tice was right to warn investors about the coming backlash. But we must go further:

1. Abolish the Climate Change Committee and repeal carbon budget law


2. Pause new renewables until the grid is rebuilt


3. Reindustrialise with UK-made gas, SMRs, and rooftop tech like Power Roll


4. Cut green levies and stop the standing charge spiral


5. Expose the grid constraint crisis and scrap projects with no viable connections

The British people were never given a vote on Net Zero. It was imposed — by law, by quango, by stealth. Reform UK is the only party prepared to fight it at the root.

As Richard said, “Let the battle begin.” But this time, let’s finish it.